Worlds Without End Blog

Earlier this month Locus Magazine published its 2011 Recommended Reading List. "This recommended reading list, published in Locus Magazine’s February 2012 issue, is a consensus by Locus editors and reviewers…" of the best books published last year. These books make up the core of the Locus Awards Poll.

We’ve just finished adding the missing novels to our database so you can’t say you have nothing new to read now. Check these out and let us know what you think of the list. What do you like on this list? Is there something missing that should be there? Dont’ worry, you can vote online until April 15th!

Novels – Science Fiction

• Daybreak Zero – John Barnes (Ace)
• Grail – Elizabeth Bear (Ballantine Spectra)
• Leviathan Wakes – James S. A. Corey (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• The Clockwork Rocket – Greg Egan (Night Shade Books)
• This Shared Dream – Kathleen Ann Goonan (Tor)
• 7th Sigma – Steven Gould (Tor)
• Deadline – Mira Grant (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• Earthbound – Joe Haldeman (Ace)
• 11/22/63 – Stephen King (Scribner; Hodder & Stoughton as 11.22.63)
• Wake Up and Dream – Ian R. MacLeod (PS Publishing)
• Firebird – Jack McDevitt (Ace)
• Embassytown – China Miéville (Ballantine Del Rey; Macmillan)
• All the Lives He Led – Frederik Pohl (Tor)
• The Islanders – Christopher Priest (Gollancz)
• Enigmatic Pilot: A Tall Tale Too True – Kris Saknussemm (Del Rey)
• Heart of Iron – Ekaterina Sedia (Prime Books)
• Rule 34 – Charles Stross (Ace; Orbit UK)
• Dancing With Bears – Michael Swanwick (Night Shade Books)
• The Children of the Sky – Vernor Vinge (Tor)
• The Courier’s New Bicycle – Kim Westwood (Voyager Australia)
• Zone One – Colson Whitehead (Doubleday; Harvill Secker)
• Vortex – Robert Charles Wilson (Tor)
• Home Fires – Gene Wolfe (Tor; PS)

Novels – Fantasy

• The Heroes – Joe Abercrombie (Gollancz; Orbit US)
• The Dragon’s Path – Daniel Abraham (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• Heartless – Gail Carriger (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• The Fallen Blade – Jon Courtenay Grimwood (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• The Alchemists of Kush – Minister Faust (Narmer’s Palette)
• Hidden Cities – Daniel Fox (Del Rey)
• The Uncertain Places – Lisa Goldstein (Tachyon Publications)
• Raising Stony Mayhall – Daryl Gregory (Del Rey)
• The Magician King – Lev Grossman (Viking)
• Redwood and Wildfire – Andrea Hairston (Aqueduct Press)
• The Kingdom of Gods – N. K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• A Dance with Dragons – George R. R. Martin (Bantam; Harper Voyager UK)
• The Cold Commands – Richard K. Morgan (Ballantine Del Rey; Gollancz)
• Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the D’Urbervilles – Kim Newman (Titan Books)
• The Book of Transformations – Mark Charan Newton (Tor UK)
• Mr. Fox – Helen Oyeyemi (Picador UK; Riverhead)
• The Hammer – K. J. Parker (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• Snuff – Terry Pratchett (Harper; Doubleday UK)
• Briarpatch – Tim Pratt (ChiZine Publications)
• The River of Shadows – Robert V. S. Redick (Del Rey; Gollancz)
• The Wise Man’s Fear – Patrick Rothfuss (DAW; Gollancz)
• Deathless – Catherynne M. Valente (Tor)
• The Folded World – Catherynne M. Valente (Night Shade Books)
• Among Others – Jo Walton (Tor)
• Mistification – Kaaron Warren (Angry Robot UK; Angry Robot US)

Young Adult Books

• Abarat: Absolute Midnight – Clive Barker (Harper; HarperCollins UK)
• The Mostly True Story of Jack – Kelly Barnhill (Little, Brown)
• Chime – Franny Billingsley (Dial)
• Red Glove – Holly Black (McElderry)
• Beauty Queens – Libba Bray (Scholastic)
• Eona – Alison Goodman (Viking; Angus & Roberson)
• Twilight Robbery – Frances Hardinge (Macmillan; Harper as Fly Trap)
• The Shattering – Karen Healey (Allen & Unwin; Little, Brown)
• Huntress – Malinda Lo (Little, Brown)
• Planesrunner – Ian McDonald (Pyr)
• A Monster Calls – Patrick Ness (Walker UK; Candlewick)
• The Akata Witch – Nnedi Okorafor (Viking)
• Mastiff – Tamora Pierce (Random House)
• Scrivener’s Moon – Philip Reeve (Marion Lloyd)
• Across the Universe – Beth Revis (Razorbill)
• Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children – Ransom Riggs (Quirk)
• The Freedom Maze – Delia Sherman (Small Beer Press/Big Mouth House)
• The Highest Frontier – Joan Slonczewski (Tor)
• Daughter of Smoke and Bone – Laini Taylor (Little, Brown; Hodder & Stoughton)
• The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making – Catherynne M. Valente (Feiwel and Friends)
• The Boy at the End of the World – Greg van Eekhout (Bloomsbury USA)
• Goliath – Scott Westerfeld (Simon Pulse; Simon & Schuster UK)
• Across the Great Barrier – Patricia C. Wrede (Scholastic)
• The Space Between – Brenna Yovanoff (Razorbill)

First Novels

• Debris – Jo Anderton (Angry Robot US; Angry Robot UK)
• The Girl of Fire and Thorns – Rae Carson (Greenwillow; Gollancz as Fire and Thorns)
• Ready Player One – Ernest Cline (Crown; Century)
• God’s War – Kameron Hurley (Night Shade Books)
• The Desert of Souls – Howard Andrew Jones (St. Martin’s)
• Of Blood and Honey – Stina Leicht (Night Shade)
• Soft Apocalypse – Will McIntosh (Night Shade Books)
• The Night Circus – Erin Morgenstern (Doubleday)
• The Tiger’s Wife – Téa Obreht (Random House; Weidenfeld & Nicholson)
• Low Town – Daniel Polansky (Doubleday; Hodder & Stoughton as Low Town: The Straight Razor Cure)
• Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti – Genevieve Valentine (Prime Books)
• Blood Red Road – Moira Young (McElderry; Marion Lloyd)
• Seed – Rob Ziegler (Night Shade Books)

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1 Comment

Emil   |   12 Feb 2012 @ 09:59

There is something about the "Debris" cover that reminds me of "Shadow and Claw" that ultimately means I need to get it. And "Seed" sounds very promising. "Home Fires" is already on my "to get" list. I give up on the rest – it’s pretty impossible to read them all.

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